Chorales

The settings of the Chorales from the Breitkopf Edition Volume V CDs 27-32 are almost worth the purchase price alone.

Amoeba Bachanalia sfmike 2007

And when, still later, sitting beside my daughter-in-law, I made myself a watery spectacle, it was the voices and overarching brass in the "Harvest Home Chorales," not any familiar melody, which so reduced me.

Ivesiana Yates, Peter 1970

Prelude, Aria and Finale, and finally the Three Chorales for organ, his swan song.

The World's Great Men of Music Brower, Harriette 1922

'Chorales are all very fine,' he said, 'but surely oftentimes you play music from the abominable Mass, not fitting indeed in a holy place set apart for the worship of the Lord according to our pure faith?'

A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg 1905

And softly, so softly that the tunes seemed to be but dreams he began playing those old Chorales, one after another, so that the stilly sounds floated out, through the opened window, puzzling the early birds and cats and those few humans who were abroad as yet .....

Saint's Progress John Galsworthy 1900

And softly, so softly that the tunes seemed to be but dreams he began playing those old Chorales, one after another, so that the stilly sounds floated out, through the opened window, puzzling the early birds and cats and those few humans who were abroad as yet .....

Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

Prelude, Aria and Finale, and finally the Three Chorales for organ, his swan song.

The World's Great Men of Music Story-Lives of Master Musicians Harriette Brower 1898

The specific qualities of Italian music for the next two centuries were undoubtedly determined by the atmosphere of sensuous pietism in which it flourished, at the very time when German music was striking far other roots in the Chorales of the Reformation epoch.

Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction John Addington Symonds 1866

Chorales freely for their own purposes, but the Editors were bound to go back to the sources, from which their melodies might be obtained not only most accurately, but also in the form most suitable for their object.

The Chorale Book for England 1863

How Bach harmonized these Chorales is well known, and need not be dwelt upon here, but his introduction of them in the manner described has much contributed to the confusion of the titles of hymns, which has continued to the present time.

The Chorale Book for England 1863